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U.S. Natgas Prices Gain 2% to One-Week High on Colder January Forecasts

U.S. natural gas futures gained about 2% to a one-week high on Wednesday on a decline in daily output and forecasts for colder weather in mid January than previously expected. That price increase came despite forecasts for milder weather and lower heating demand this week and next than previously expected, and a small decline in …

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Orsted Walks Away From Green Hydrogen Project Citing High Costs

(Bloomberg) Germany’s Heide oil refinery and its partner Orsted A/S have shelved plans for a green hydrogen plant due to increased investment costs and associated economic risks. This is at least the second such project Orsted has dropped in recent months, after deciding not to proceed with an electrolyzer at the Humber refinery in the UK. The …

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Siemens Energy’s Struggling Wind Unit Unveils $436 million in Cost Cuts

(Reuters) – Siemens Gamesa, the struggling wind division of Germany’s Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE), plans to cut costs by around 400 million euros ($436 million) by 2026, according to presentation slides posted online ahead of the company’s capital markets day. The goal was to “simplify organization and optimize overhead costs” while the Siemens Gamesa’s onshore wind …

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U.S. Coast Guard seeks source of some 1.1 million gallons of crude oil in Gulf of Mexico

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday said it was still looking for the source of a leak from an underwater pipeline off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico that it estimated had released more than a million gallons of crude oil. The 67-mile long pipeline was closed by Main Pass Oil Gathering Co …

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Oil Traders Struggle as Decades-Old Signal of U.S. Market Weakens

The biggest oil-storage hub in the US — a massive network of tank farms known as the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World” — is rapidly losing its primacy as a signal for domestic supply and demand. For decades, traders watched inventory levels at Cushing, Oklahoma, to track US crude balances, but the US’s increasing integration …

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How to Tell If a Climate Deal Will Succeed or Fail

(Bloomberg) It’s about to get very noisy in the climate world as more than 70,000 people flock to the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 summit starting next week. Making sense of the many announcements about to land will be a challenge. The main headlines will rightly focus on what nearly 200 countries agree on at the United Nations-backed …

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Components of An Electric Vehicle Battery – ENERGYminute

Courtesy of ENERGYminute   See more articles and infographics from ENERGYminute HERE An electric vehicle battery is typically made up of several components, including: Electrodes: The positive and negative electrodes are the heart of the battery. They are usually made of a metal oxide for the positive electrode and graphite for the negative electrode. Separator: The separator is a …

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Mapped: Air Pollution Levels Around the World in 2022 – Visual Capitalist

Courtesy of Visual Capitalist – See More From Visual Capitalist HERE The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that air pollution leads to 7 million premature deaths every year. Out of the six common air pollutants, particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or smaller in diameter, or PM2.5, is accepted as the most harmful to human health. This is due to …

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OPEC+ Cuts Partly Due to Reshaping of Global Oil Flows, IEA Says

LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) – European Union and G7 restrictions on Russian oil exports led to a global shift in oil flows, with Asian refiners soaking up discounted Russian crude, in part explaining the recent OPEC+ decision to curtail output further, the West’s energy watchdog said on Friday. With the arrival of over three million …

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